Jaime Garzón, a Colombian lawyer, journalist, comedian, teacher, pacifist, political scientist, sociologist, activist, and critic, won the hearts of his countrymen via various television and radio programs where he expressed, prolifically and with great vision and foresight [es], the daily happenings of the country.

More recently, with the growth of citizen media, each year his name [es] once again appears among the locally trending topics on Twitter, and blogs renew their outcry at the impunity of his assassination – just as La Pastusita does in her post “Lo mismo que antes” [es] (The Same as Before).

Lab Social Blog criticizes Colombians for having become desensitized to death and reflects [es] on the indifference and the impunity surrounding Garzón's murder:

Days and years go by and we only comment over an over in our newspapers about how one more year has passed with Jaime's death going unpunished, and that still the true authors of the most significant assassinations that have happened in our country cannot be revealed.

In her blog “Thinking Without Side-effects,” Rosa Cristina pays homage to Garzón [es] and remembers many of his contributions, among them, his effort to help raise the consciousness of a better country:

Garzón believed in life, believed in institutions, believed in the Columbian Constitution of 1991, in spite of everything, he believed in a new Colombia and he believed that things could be better. The greatest tribute that we could give to Jaime today, and to all of those anonymous victims, is to make this better country possible, because if we pay this homage to the man who was Garzón, we really will be building our Country, our Democracy, or however you want to call this idea of “having a country that is marginally better”.

Olga Lucía Lozano in La Silla Vacía also pays tribute to Garzón by publishing the “Garzonpedia” [es] with thirteen of his famous quotes. Lozano finishes with a quotation from Garzón that Catalina Arbeláez also shares on her blog [es]:

In this country, the State either exists, or doesn't exist. It exists to make you pay taxes; VAT, capital gains taxes; but it doesn't exist to give me social security, work, medical care – nothing. In those instances, the State doesn't exist.